The last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' after he refused to move out is decorating his house – despite a compulsory purchase order being given the go ahead. Nick Wisniewski, 66, has no neighbours living beside him in 128 flats after the last of around 200 residents moved out last December.
At a recent planning committee meeting councillors gave the green light to approve the start of the compulsory purchase order process for Nick’s flat. But Nick refuses to leave despite the council's attempts to buy him out, and is planning on spending £1,000 to repaint his living room, get new carpets, and panel his hall.
The eight blocks of flats and other homes on Stanhope Place in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, are all scheduled for demolition. Council officials offered him £35,000 for his flat plus two years' rent somewhere else if he moved – but Nick turned it down.
